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Israeli, US and Turkish interests attacked in Erbil

18 April 2021

Strikes against Israeli Mossad offices, a US military base and another Turkish military base were reported on 13, 14 and 15 April 2021 in the city of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
For the first time, they were not executed with rockets, but with drones.
The local press links the (...)

Washington, Tehran place one of Soleimani’s assassins in power in Iraq

16 May 2020

Washington and Tehran concluded an agreement to appoint one of General Qassem Soleimani’s assassins, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, to the post of Prime Minister of Iraq.
Despite having dual British and Iraqi nationality, Mr. al-Kadhimi is reportedly close to the CIA. He was part of the Iraqi government (...)

US and Iranian violations of Iraqi sovereignty

by Mohammed Hussein Bahr Aluloom‎‎

New York (USA) | 9 January 2020

Further to our letter dated 6 January 2020 (S/2020/15) concerning the violation of the sovereignty of Iraq perpetrated by United States military forces on 3 January 2020, and on instructions from my Government, I am writing to inform you that Iraqi territory was violated yet again in the middle (...)

The Insoluble Contradictions of Daesh and the PKK/YPG

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 12 November 2019

We only know what is happening in the Levant through the war propaganda of the country in which we live. We ignore other points of view and, more importantly, how our armies have behaved. To disentangle the true from the false, historians will have to examine the available documents. However, (...)

Three countries support plan for free movement of goods in the Levant

16 April 2019

Iran, Iraq and Syria confirmed on April 14, 2019 their intention to launch a regional railway project to link the Iranian port of Khorramshahr, in the northern Arabian-Persian Gulf, to the Syrian coast in the Mediterranean, passing through Iraq.
The initial decision on the project was taken in (...)

From Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to Syrian chemical weapons

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 5 March 2019

In a report dated 1 March 2019, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) attests to the fact that were never any prohibited chemical substances in Douma (Syria) during the attack of 7 April 2018. The reprisal tripartite bombing (United States, France, United Kingdom) was (...)

France will give to Iraq 1 000 million euro

17 January 2019

Following the Head of US Diplomacy, Mike Pompeo, his French partner ‎Jean-Yves Le Drian also made a visit to Bagdad. His visit coincided with the visit of King Abdallah II of Jordan. ‎
To everyone’s surprise, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs announced that France – while in the throes of a (...)

Iraq at crossroads

10 September 2018

In response to the riots at Basra, the secular coalition of Moqtada al-Sadr has requested an apology from and the resignation of their former ally, the Iraqi Prime Minister Haïder al-Abadi.
Moqtada al-Sadr, although the Shiite leader, promises both a policy of independence with respect to Iran (...)

Al-Abadi declares a state of emergency in Iraq

20 July 2018

Demonstrations are taking place in Southern Iraq denouncing the lack of essential services that the government should guarantee.
At the weekend, Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi declared a state of emergency anticipating that the social movement would catch fire in the capital.
The protests (...)

Pro-US Kurds against Iraqi and Syrian Christians

7 July 2018

The regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan has established an Islamic tax on businesses owned by Christians.
This tax appeared at the end of June in Ankawa, a district of Erbil, a city where 80% of the inhabitants are Christian. This tax is a mutated form of the former “Djizîa”, the tax collected (...)

Redistributing the cards in Iraq

16 June 2018

The Iraqi Parliament has declared that the legislative elections aimed at reviving its functioning, were irregular. Parliament has revoked the Electoral Commission and has called for the votes to be recounted.
Violence has broken out in Baghdad, resulting in 18 deaths.
Although Moqtada (...)

The Outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister challenges the Electoral Commission

11 June 2018

The outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, has denounced the serious irregularities during the Iraqi legislative elections. In particular, he has accused members of the Independent Electoral High Commission (IEHC) of rigging the electronic votes that operated from abroad.
Al Abadi (...)

Will 7 million Iraqis be deprived of water this summer?

11 June 2018

According to the Iraqi Minister of Hydraulic Resources, this summer around 7 million people could be without water and therefore would have to be moved to other regions of the country.
Over the last year, several sources of water have seen their level drop drastically. The two images above (...)

In question – US presence in Iraq

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 1 June 2018

Iraq has never known peace since the invasion by the United States, fifteen years ago, and as a result the electorate has lost faith in the different political institutions which followed. In any case, those citizens who did take part in the elections of 12 May chose anti-US electoral lists, (...)

Demonstration in Kurdistan against the Barzanis

29 December 2017

18 December 2017: responding to the call of the Goran Party, several thousands of officials demonstrated, at Sulaymaniyah, the second town in the Iraqi Kurdistan, calling for the resignation of the regional government.
The demonstrators, directly challenging the authority of the Barzanis, were (...)

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